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 .70 Matthias helps Wanapum natives, later barred from Hanford and ancestor's graves after the war
 .72 interviewed 250K workers, hired 100K, 45K remained, 15K blacks
 .76 1944 union "day's pay" campaign raised $162K to buy a B-17 for the air force
 .77 eight mess halls, 2700 people each, 50,000 box lunches

The Apocalypse Factory

Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

Steve Olson 2020, Beaverton Library 623.4511 OLS

  • 05 plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb
  • 31 Chemical separation of plutonium with S₂O₈ UCB Gilman Hall room 303 by Seaborg and Wahl Feb 1941

  • 52 Chicago Met Lab, plutonium contaminated hose used to fix soda machine
  • 55 Stone&Webster -> du Pont

  • 63 1943 March eviction White Bluffs WA 300 residents
  • 64 177 graves moved to Prosser (32 mi south) . . 65 600 square miles
  • 66 Grove assistant 34yo Franklin Matthias, Hanford construction boss
    • attachment:HanfordMap.jpg attachment:HanfordArea.png attachment:LIGO.png

  • 70 Matthias helps Wanapum natives, later barred from Hanford and ancestor's graves after the war
  • 72 interviewed 250K workers, hired 100K, 45K remained, 15K blacks
  • 76 1944 union "day's pay" campaign raised $162K to buy a B-17 for the air force
  • 77 eight mess halls, 2700 people each, 50,000 box lunches

ApocalypseFactory (last edited 2022-08-20 21:02:07 by KeithLofstrom)